POST PROJECT REMARKS:
In June 2019, we visited seven elementary schools, a kindergarten, a museum and a library South of Armenia, near the Syunik province, and upgraded their lighting from incandescent light bulbs to LED bulbs where they were needed. Not all elementary schools required lighting upgrades, since some had been recently renovated and were already equipment with LED lighting.
PRE-PROJECT REMARKS:
In June of 2019, Empower Armenia will be visiting five elementary schools with the goal of improving their overall lighting by replacing their old incandescent light bulbs with LED bulbs. The improvements will benefit the classrooms, hallways, library and teacher’s lounge.
This year’s school supplies project was completed, we were able to successfully bring school supplies to just over 200 children in the rural areas of Armenia. We delivered school supplies, and soccer balls to the orphanage ‘Our Lady of Armenia’ – ‘Tiramayr Hayastan’ in Gyumri. This took place on Thursday, June 6, 2019. A week later we visited the Southern provinces of Armenia, where we donated school supplies to the children, soccer balls, tournament chess sets, black board chalk erasers, and a map to each school. Originally 150 school supplies were to be donated to five schools in the South, near the province of Syunik, but we decided to extend the program to two additional schools. We donated 185 school supplies to seven schools in two days on Saturday and Sunday, June 15th and 16th of 2019. A total of 200 school supplies, 30 soccer balls, 24 chess sets, 72 chalk board erasers and 5 Maps were given away between seven school and an orphanage in 2019.
If you were wondering why we haven’t mentioned the names and locations of the schools that we visited in the South regions of Armenia on our website as per our policy of transparency with our donors and everyone else; we were ask not to by the local administration for national security reasons. If anyone of our donors would like to know the names and the location of the schools, we are able to provide that to you upon your request; but unfortunately, we were asked to omit this information from our website and facebook page for national security reasons. I hope this does not cause any inconvenience to you in anyway. Thank you.
Please continue your support to our annual school supplies project, by visiting out ongoing projects.
